Show OF BALTIC BALI ISLAND SAVES SHIPS SHIP'S GREW Gi Gives Russians Warning o of German Man o 0 War LONDON Feb 12 Since 12 Since the beginning begin ning of the war nor the Russian Aland Alandi i Islands have ha e been cut of oft off a almost almost- en enIY entirely entirely en- en IY from om communication c lon a with th the outside worlds world and nd one of the J islanders island island- landI I ers who has r reached ached Stockholm after afler an adventurous voyage in a small boat gives an interesting account of ot ol war warI I experiences German torpedo boats a and d submarines vines rines often enter the numerous straits and nd channels between the islands he said Early in to the war a a. German G tor for i I i I 1 I I I 1 I i I pe b boat ran on a a. rock and sank A AGerman German Gennan warship which did not come came within sight landed men from a boat boa on an uninhabited Island near near the most western of the larger Islands The Alanders believing belie the strangers strang- strang ers were shipwrecked mariners wen went in n boats to relieve them The Germans offered a considerable sum if it a skilled Alander lander pilot was placed at their disposition dis dis- 1 position The Islanders refused and the Germans fearing their their- presence would be reported made off oft I The Alander was a witness of the German warships' warships attack on the forI fortified for for- island of Uto which lies halt half halfway way say between the Aland islands proper and th the Finnish mainland He asserts that during the attack the Germans lost a large transport which struck a amine mine Whether the ship contained troops troops' or only stores stores' he does not know The heroine of Aland was a c certain Signe Signs Ollsen a girl from the mainland who was stopping with relatives al at when the war began She remained on the island as a a. member ol of the nurses' nurses corps held in readiness incase in incase incase case of a battle While walking alone on the cliffs she was the first person to see approaching a cruiser which she guessed to be a German A Russian Russian- torpedo boat was lying in a creek in an island a a. mile away in a position from which the enemy could not be seen A heavy sea was running and navigation was doubly doubly doubly dou dou- bly dangerous owing to the numerous rocks Mlle Mile Onsen hoping to save the torpedo boat took a boat and rowed toward the island Hardly had she got r round und the cape which hid the torpedo torpedo torpedo tor tor- boat from sight eight when her ter boat ran on a rock and a heavy envy wave capsized capsized capsized cap cap- sized it A Russian boat at once set setout setout out but arrived too late The girl was I dead |